a. (UN-1 7 b.) a. Not entitled to be released on bail. b. Not admitting of bail.
1627. in Birch, Crt. & Times Chas. I. (1848), I. 295. If the cause be unexpressed, he shall be unbailable.
a. 1718. Penn, Life, Wks. 1726, I. 228. We are then thrown into a noisom Gaol, and there we must lie unbailable.
1861. G. G. Perry, Hist. Ch. Eng., I. iv. 185. The unbailable imprisonment which lighted upon those who declined it.
1884. Imp. Dict., s.v., The offence is unbailable.